The impact of Covid-19 pandemic related lockdown on clubfoot practice: Type of study design: Retrospective cross-sectional study.
Medicine (Baltimore)
; 100(25): e26389, 2021 Jun 25.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1280154
ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT We investigated whether the number of pediatric patients with congenital clubfoot treated with the Ponseti method decreased during the Covid-19 pandemic or not in a rural area. So we aimed to guide orthopedic surgeons and health infrastructure for future pandemics to be prepared in hospitals of rural areas for the treatment of children with congenital clubfoot.One hundred and fifty-four patients with clubfoot who were admitted to our clinic were evaluated retrospectively from March 2017 to December 2020. Institutional hospital electronic database was used to detect the number of weeks between the birth and first cast performed in clinic and the number of casts been applied and unilaterality or bilaterality. Patients were divided into four groups, which included pandemic period and three previous years. Recorded data were analyzed statistically to detect if there is a difference between the numbers of the patients in pandemic period and three previous years.The number of patients with clubfoot admitted to our hospital between March 2020 and December 2020 increased by 140% compared to previous year. There was a statistically significant difference between the average number of cast applications of Group 4 and other groups (P <.001). Achilles tenotomy was performed in 44 (61.1%) of 72 patients admitted during the pandemic period. Only 4 (13.3%) out of 30 patients admitted between March 2019 and December 2019 were performed Achilles tenotomy.We detected an increase in the number of clubfoot cases admitted to our rural-based hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic, treated with casting or surgically. We think this is because of preventive measures during the pandemic, which caused parents could not reach urban for treatment.
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Clubfoot
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Casts, Surgical
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Tenotomy
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COVID-19
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Health Services Accessibility
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Qualitative research
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Randomized controlled trials
Limits:
Humans
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Infant
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Male
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Infant, Newborn
Language:
English
Journal:
Medicine (Baltimore)
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
MD.0000000000026389
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